Oh, thank you very much! I hope it holds up on rewatching. :)
As for the song choice - back when the ceremony aired, one of the things I loved about it was the sense of darkness and uncertainty, specifically about whether the industrial revolution was a good thing or not. I think it resonated through the whole hour and a half (I wrote something a bit rushed and incoherent about it here). The choice of music in the show all seemed quite obtuse to me, if this was a plainly celebratory pageant - Nimrod, with its connections to funerals, Jerusalem, which is fairly anti-industry (to say the least), Abide with Me, which accompanied a very downbeat ending. In the run up to the show too, including God Save the Queen + London Calling in the montage seemed a somewhat damning approach to national celebration, and Map of the Problematique then provided the riff as the montage came into the stadium and the countdown to the ceremony begins. It's one of my favourite Muse songs, so I wanted to explore the implications of its negativity and uncertainty with the ceremony as a whole - and I chose this mix in particular because I think it really draws out the darkness and the space inherent in the song (plus it has a lot of internal dynamics, which are always good for vids and what the original mix somewhat lacks).
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Date: 18/09/2012 08:09 (UTC)As for the song choice - back when the ceremony aired, one of the things I loved about it was the sense of darkness and uncertainty, specifically about whether the industrial revolution was a good thing or not. I think it resonated through the whole hour and a half (I wrote something a bit rushed and incoherent about it here). The choice of music in the show all seemed quite obtuse to me, if this was a plainly celebratory pageant - Nimrod, with its connections to funerals, Jerusalem, which is fairly anti-industry (to say the least), Abide with Me, which accompanied a very downbeat ending. In the run up to the show too, including God Save the Queen + London Calling in the montage seemed a somewhat damning approach to national celebration, and Map of the Problematique then provided the riff as the montage came into the stadium and the countdown to the ceremony begins. It's one of my favourite Muse songs, so I wanted to explore the implications of its negativity and uncertainty with the ceremony as a whole - and I chose this mix in particular because I think it really draws out the darkness and the space inherent in the song (plus it has a lot of internal dynamics, which are always good for vids and what the original mix somewhat lacks).